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How To Make Use Of Cloud Hosting Services?

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Cloud computing and Cloud Hosting are said to be the technologies of tomorrow. There are so much expectations regarding cloud hosting technology in the internet world today. This technology is expected to make internet faster, efficient and hosting activities much cheaper. Many companies today are using cloud hosting services and it has helped them to bring down hosting costs considerably.

There is so much more to cloud hosting than just cost reduction. With cloud hosting the efficiency of the website will be increased and so will be the effectiveness. The cloud hosting services can be utilized by a company in more than one way. Apart from using cloud hosting to host the website and maintain it, there are many other things to be done using cloud hosting. Some companies are even not sure how to make proper user of cloud hosting services.

One method which a business organization can make use of cloud hosting services is to resolve the issue of lack of resources to handle data. There are situations where a company runs out of hardware resources or servers to handle their data. Cloud hosting technology and services can be used to handle this situation. Cloud Hosting can be used as a secondary option or can be integrated with the current architecture used in the organization. Here, the company will have its own stand alone servers and with the help of Cloud Hosting, unlimited computing resources can be attained.

Another option for a business is to use Cloud Hosting as a disaster recovery or backup option. Most of the organizations today are using a mirrored server method or similar methods for data backup and recovery. However, methods like this have proven costly again and again. Cloud Hosting technology is a good alternative to these methods.

With cloud technology, the company can schedule backups to the cloud and when needed, can retrieve the data from the system. The cloud server only needs to power up when taking a backup or to restore data. There is no need for the servers to run continuously all the day. This can save a lot of money for the company.

The same cloud hosting technology can be used to satisfy the testing and development environments. In most companies, the same mirrored server and similar methods are used for these purposes also. Using cloud servers for this purpose can also result in cutting down of cost for the company. You can power on the server when you want to test some applications and once the process is over, you can turn it off. If you utilize the cloud hosting technology and service in the right way, there are so many hidden opportunities available for you.

Since you pay only for what you use, cloud hosting services offer nay company great savings for money. Using Cloud Hosting can also help the staff to reduce their burden and focus completely on one area of work. Above mentioned are only some of the ways which a company can use Cloud Hosting to their benefit. There are many more methods which can help to save time and money.

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Rackspace Buys Cloudkik

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Large hosting and cloud hosting company Rackspace has aquired Cloudkick for an undisclosed amount of money. Cloudkick, which opened it’s doors in early 2009, helps to provide detailed graphs on your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing.  This should help the cloud server giant know a little better what is going on with your servers.

Cloudkick has a little over 1,500 businesses that it helps, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small start-ups.  Cloudkick has helped more than 1 million servers know a little better what is going on.

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EMC Buys Isilon

Monday, November 15th, 2010

EMC has just acquired Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion in cash or approximately $33.85 per share. We have been hearing about this for some time but now it is official!  So what will happen with Isilon Systems now?  We use the Isilos storage for our cloud hosting storage platform.  Will we still be able to get our storage platform from Isilon?

Isilon is know for its “Scale-out NAS” storage systems.  This offers customers a scalable but low-cost storage infrastructure for managing a ton of data.  Clients who need Isilon’s data storage capabilities are typically very large storage clients like datacenters.

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